Hodge-Podge

Welcome to Big Mountain Photography with a Hodge-Podge collection of recent film and digital images. Effective 2016-12-09, I stopped posting my images on Facebook as this is my homepage. FOLLOW if you like.

Last Sunday morning, I took a brief photowalk around the local Mylapore Temple with a Lensbaby lens on my Fuji X-Pro2 to experiment with its Tilt and Swing features in moving the plane of focus. It’s a creative lens, i.e. miniature effect, selective focus…

Surprisingly the most difficult focus was to bring the lens back to its neutral position with a full focus plane. Shooting in manual mode with a mirrorless allows using “focus peaking” was a breeze as one clearly understands where the slice of focus is moving.

Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Edge 50 OpticView Camera Movements: Lensbaby Left<=> Right is like “Swing” in a View Camera Lensbaby Up<=> Down is like “Tilt” in a View Camera1) Focused on Fiat: Used a left horizon swing to move the focus plan to the rear of the Fiat 1000 as a Selective Focus technique.2) Temple Tank in Focus: The pink water lilies in full bloom provides the color balance against the green grass (weeds too).3) Temple Tower Sliced: This slice of life begins to show the multitude of stories on the Temple’s Tower.

Fuji GF670 Medium Format Film, 6×7

4) Hyderabad Scarecrow: A repeat of digital work. After passing this cotton field for 15+ times it appears he’s keeping it secure.5) At Rest in Dock: The faded green color of this fishing vessel is a true representation of its real visual appeal.

6) Looking Down: At the entrance to the Mylapore Temple Tower, I found this scene of Hindu Gods watching over the many visitors as I turned around to look up.7) Quiet Sunday Morning Read: My walk around Mylapore Temple found this gentleman enjoying his newspaper in solitude.